This could be a thing where we have red-hot needles driven into our genitals twice a year and there would still be people all like 'wah wah wah, it's just a couple of needles, what's the big deal you dumb crybabies, three cheers for the people making these arbitrary decisions which slowly erode the quality of our lives'.
Guess which side I come down on wrt this debate. Just guess.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 March 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
twice a year
oh I'm 100% against returning to standard time
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
I was shooting for “humor,” but this is a good article challenging the statistics about DST https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-daylight-saving-20190309-story.html
― Je55e, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
I too would prefer no time changes, as long as we stuck with DST.
― Je55e, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
^otm. DST year-round works for me.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
When the fall change to standard time comes, I complain as loudly as anyone. Or at least as loudly as most people do about springing forward. That extra hour means nothing to me compared with looking forward to sunset at 4:15 (and dusk at 2:30-3:00 PM on cloudy days). Chicago is geographically screwed when it comes to time zones.
― Je55e, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
brad the government is stealing time from me
also now the sun’s gonna be all in my eyes in the morning again
also we have to deal with all the people writing EST when they mean EDT
― mookieproof, Saturday, March 9, 2019 1:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok fine admittedly these are all terrible things
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
the thing about daylight savings is that 2 AM on a Saturday is just early enough that it's plausible you might still be awake and/or out at that hour, which suddenly is no longer "that hour"; few worse feelings than (purely hypothetically, of course) spending two hours on a greyhound bus then another 15-20 minutes waiting for the subway, looking down at your phone, and all of a sudden it's 3 AM
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
Supposedly chile went back to using DST because of " ...However, the annual time change was reinstated in 2016 after feedback from the public about an increase in truancy during the winter months, complaints about older computers and other electronic devices not using the right time zone, and fruit growers reporting a 15% loss in productivity." - wiki
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Feel like everyone I interact with has joined me in just getting back from a trip after spending a month in a place one time zone away
― calstars, Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
Or at least as loudly as most people do about springing forward.
You mean "wintering forward."
― pplains, Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
as it happens I also have a midterm tomorrow and sure could have fucking used that extra hour of study
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
sunny and 35 F at 7pm doesn't do much for me
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 March 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CZtFsy6.png
https://i.imgur.com/kXss8IV.png
https://i.imgur.com/P7ksjMq.png
http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
― pplains, Monday, 11 March 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
I’d be surprised if there isn’t some freeman/flat earth/bitcoin intersection that advocates for individual timezones or at least against government imposed time.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
that used to exist! in the early US! it was madness! there are whole almanacs that will tell you what time it is in various stops along the rail tracks if it's noon in philadelphia. or maybe i dreamt that. it's the kind of thing that would be in a dream. but i'm pretty sure that was a real thing.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
i mean, i presume this phenomenon was not confined to the US but it is pretty weird thinking about an era when telegraphy existed AND multiple, localized, slightly out, concurrent time zones did too
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
The railways brought universal time to most places.
I did travel through the Nullarbor where a small number of communities voluntarily observer the completely unofficial Australian Central West Time which is 1hr and 45 minutes different from the rest of the state. It’s main purposes seems to be to confuse tourists.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 11 March 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
Adelaide being half an hour off, and two of the states not doing daylight savings, made scheduling TV extremely complicated (esp during live disaster coverage)
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 11 March 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
Srsly, the only way this map could be any better would be if Canberra observed DST all year long.
https://i.imgur.com/nfzBf37.png
― pplains, Monday, 11 March 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
Why (those maps / that article) decided that "a reasonable sunrise time" was before 7 am is probably due to a conspiracy of so-called 'morning' people, who everyone with sense understands to be semi-human mutants and certainly not a demographic to be catered to.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 March 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
^^^
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
they left out this little bit as well
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1dOd4GeLHV3x1rtZgCP_o23HAQ4E&hl=en&ll=-31.73867912320262%2C127.28759749999995&z=8
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 11 March 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link
Like good luck convincing my body that it didn't drag itself out of bed at 4 goddamn AM this morning. Or for the next several mornings. My very cells screaming 'ARE YOU ACTUALLY KIDDING ME RN?!?'
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 March 2019 12:07 (five years ago) link
wake up sleeple!
― brownie, Monday, 11 March 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:07 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mookieproof, Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:08 PM (yesterday)
this is the highest denomination of money aimless has ever been on
― j., Monday, 11 March 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
Daylight savings is actually my preferred time of the year. Long spring afternoons and evenings are ideal for me. But one thing that articles don't seem to address is why we ever go back to standard time? What purpose does "falling back" serve?
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 11 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2019
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
The sun should never rise before 6am if we can take that time and make it set an hour laterOn the other hand I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.
― Bnad, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.
I'd blame the job, not the solar system.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
I leave for work in the dark every day of my life.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
callooh! callay!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
the last Fall Back in Oregon, we hope
https://katu.com/news/local/region-prepares-to-push-clocks-back-for-possible-final-time
― Book Doula (sleeve), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Fuck daylight savings.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
heretics!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
its the mooooost wonderful tiiie of the yeeeear
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
time, even
cretins cheering on the exacerbating of my seasonal affective disorder
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
really fucking hate it so much
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
lol this has to be the most groundhog day thread on ilx
seventeen years of biannually posting the identically futile take, we're like Beckett zombies
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
haven't noticed this thread before
I'm not a morning person, I guess people here are if they hate daylight savings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
xp it's not personal
nevertheless fuck you, darkness rules
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
worst day of the year for window peepers who are also morning people
― cryborg (rip van wanko), Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
extrahourofsleepffs
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
yeah NOW but what about next march
― j., Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
Darkness is stupid, winter is stupid, sleep is stupid.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
otm
― mick signals, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
hard to care about the extra hour of light in the mornings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
would so much rather have it in the evenings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link